paypal billing agreement id is not coming

Question

I am working with the paypal recurring payment using express checkout for variable amount.

I have almost done everything. I was following this guide:

https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/how-authorize-and-run-reference-transaction-express-checkout

After third step I am geting this response:

[TIMESTAMP] => 2012-05-02T20:33:39Z
[CORRELATIONID] => 6361035da7d80
[ACK] => Failure
[VERSION] => 86
[BUILD] => 2840849
[L_ERRORCODE0] => 11455
[L_SHORTMESSAGE0] => Buyer did not accept billing agreement
[L_LONGMESSAGE0] => Buyer did not accept billing agreement
[L_SEVERITYCODE0] => Error

Even step 4 is returning success for me but I am not receiving the BILLINGAGREEMENTID here.
I dont know what is wrong here. Please help me with this.

step 4 response is:

 Array
(
    [TOKEN] => EC-61326512J28943643
    [SUCCESSPAGEREDIRECTREQUESTED] => false
    [TIMESTAMP] => 2012-04-23T20:15:29Z
    [CORRELATIONID] => 9604631d916a1
    [ACK] => Success
    [VERSION] => 86
    [BUILD] => 2808426
    [INSURANCEOPTIONSELECTED] => false
    [SHIPPINGOPTIONISDEFAULT] => false
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_TRANSACTIONID] => 4N241225R9256962J
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_TRANSACTIONTYPE] => expresscheckout
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PAYMENTTYPE] => instant
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_ORDERTIME] => 2012-04-23T20:15:27Z
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_AMT] => 11.00
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_FEEAMT] => 0.62
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_TAXAMT] => 0.00
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_CURRENCYCODE] => USD
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PAYMENTSTATUS] => Pending
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PENDINGREASON] => paymentreview
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_REASONCODE] => None
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PROTECTIONELIGIBILITY] => Ineligible
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PROTECTIONELIGIBILITYTYPE] => None
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_SECUREMERCHANTACCOUNTID] => EUS59DJENWC3E
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_ERRORCODE] => 0
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_ACK] => Success
)

I have been working on this from at least 4-5 days.

Response after not using step 3:

 [TOKEN] => EC-6MD78480W9369745J
    [SUCCESSPAGEREDIRECTREQUESTED] => false
    [TIMESTAMP] => 2012-05-02T20:38:13Z
    [CORRELATIONID] => 72306d7db8c1b
    [ACK] => Success
    [VERSION] => 86
    [BUILD] => 2840849
    [INSURANCEOPTIONSELECTED] => false
    [SHIPPINGOPTIONISDEFAULT] => false
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_TRANSACTIONID] => 6EG31415FF2050208
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_TRANSACTIONTYPE] => expresscheckout
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PAYMENTTYPE] => instant
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_ORDERTIME] => 2012-05-02T20:38:11Z
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_AMT] => 11.00
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_FEEAMT] => 0.62
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_TAXAMT] => 0.00
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_CURRENCYCODE] => USD
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PAYMENTSTATUS] => Pending
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PENDINGREASON] => paymentreview
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_REASONCODE] => None
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PROTECTIONELIGIBILITY] => Ineligible
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_PROTECTIONELIGIBILITYTYPE] => None
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_SECUREMERCHANTACCOUNTID] => EUS59DJENWC3E
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_ERRORCODE] => 0
    [PAYMENTINFO_0_ACK] => Success

Answer 1

If you are using sandbox then the reference transactions are needed to be turned on for the sandbox account. A billing agreement with paypal i think is a reference transaction.

Answer 2

In step 3, You don't need to call method CreateBillingAgreement if you are already specifying billingtype = MerchantInitiatedBilling in step 1.

Please try this and update with the response.

Hope this helps.